Linda Thompson. Blond, beautiful, busy. Back when we were 48 states, a beauty pageant winner. Miss Tennessee. An actress. At different times, mattressmate to Elvis. At one time married to composer David Foster. Also married to — pay attention — back before Mama Kardashian, the pre-female Bruce Jenner.

Surprise! Surprise! She’s writing a book about life from Elvis to Caitlyn and has a publisher.

Linda and Olympic champion Jenner had two kids. Brody and Brandon. Did they know? No. She claims she only told them three years ago. Says one: “We’re lucky. This way we didn’t get screwed up as a result.”

Seen in LA area

California: Celebrity restaurant is Bruce Bozzi’s newly transplanted Palm. On North Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. So crowded I could barely make out Judge Judy at one table and Melissa Rivers in a banquette . . .

Also the lobby of the Montage Hotel 5 a.m. CNN’s broadcasting from there as you walk out in your drawers for coffee . . .

The lifestyle’s interesting. Like Luke Wilson facing flashbulbs and signing autographs while a street away someone’s picking out of a trash can.

Out of the mouths of winners

Oscar winner Alicia Vikander from Gothenburg, Västra Götalands Iän, Sweden: “In ‘The Danish Girl,’ playing the wife, I first knew nothing was icky in it. Like no operating scenes.”

Oscar winner Mark Rylance’s director Steven Spielberg: “I saw the Berlin Wall when it was up. As a child of the Cold War, I can never forget my family’s fear. To know what it’s like to live with terror.”

Oscar winner “Son of Saul” distributor Sony Pictures Classics: “We see every film, documentary, workshop, screening, whatever’s made. We read every script. Go through every treatment. We know what’s out there. We knew this was powerful.”

Oscar winner director Alejandro Iñárritu: “’The Revenant’ took a lot. Doing this movie was not easy. It was a fight for us all.”

Oscar winner Brie Larson’s following the trajectory of last year’s Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence. Pre-nomination neither was mega. Their cheapo indies earned Hollywood’s equivalent of a dollar and a quarter domestically. Came Oscar. They and their films began coining money like Warren Buffett. And what’s interesting? Jennifer was to star in journalist Jeannette Walls’ book adaptation “The Glass Castle.” But Jennifer chickened. So who’s been cast? Brie.

Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay “The Big Short” was its big adapter Adam McKay: “Will I ever go back to writing stuff like ‘Anchorman’? I don’t think so. But I’ll always work with Will Ferrell. I love him. In fact I now have three project ideas, and he’ll be in one of them.”

Please try to pay attention

Two who didn’t hug were Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, whom he’s unmarrying. No intermixing. He looked like he wanted to get close. She looked like, “Take the high road, pal.”

In the past, Independent Spirit Awards brought us such films as “12 Years a Slave,” “Brokeback Mountain” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and they say: “Hey, we’re not about winning prizes. We’re about losing money.”

Only in LA, kids, only in LA (And fie on the area. I’m home tomorrow.)